On 11/25/2016 11:37 AM, racoon wrote:
> On 25.11.2016 18:25, Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 11/25/2016 04:30 AM, racoon wrote:
>>> Does anyone happen to know how to get a toolbar gui name, e.g.
>>> "Standard", from a toolbar name, e.g. "standard"?
>>>
>>> I tried `ToolbarInfo(name).gui_name` but it just gives an empty string.
>>
>> The problem is that "ToolbarInfo(name)" just constructs a new instance,
>> with no information other than the name you gave it.
>>
>>> Probably it can be done somehow with `Toolbars::info`? But I don't
>>> know how.
>>
>> I don't know much about the toolbars, so this may or may not work. Here
>> "name" is the thing we are looking for.
>>
>> docstring gui_name;
>> # Get the toolbars
>> Toolbars const & bars = theApp().toolbars();
>> # Find the one we want
>> Toolbars::Infos::const_iterator it = bars.begin();
>> Toolbars::Infos::const_iterator en = bars.end();
>> for (; it != en; ++it) {
>> if (it->name == name) {
>> gui_name = it->gui_name;
>> break;
>> }
>> }
>> # now gui_name should have the right string, unless
>> # we didn't find the name, in which case it is still empty
>>
>> I guess there's some fancy new way to do these iterations, but I can't
>> remember what it is.
>
> Thanks for the helpful explanations. And it works too.
>
> Actually, I have seen a similar iteration elsewhere but there it was
> actually used to do something with every toolbar, so thought that
> there is probably a simpler way to get the info for just one bar.
It's possible that there is some refactoring that could be done here....
Richard
